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Posted about 3 days ago by Genevievre Gray

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New Year, new you? How about New Year, new take on a classic? These YA fictional retellings breathe new life into time honored classic stories and refresh beloved fairy tales. […]

Posted about 2 months ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Book Reviews, diverse reads, For Teens, holidays; celebrations, Native American Heritage, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yareads, young adult

Richmond Public Library celebrates our Indigenous community members by recognizing Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month (also celebrated as Native American Heritage Month in the US), which takes place annually during the […]

Posted about 3 months ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Book Reviews, For Teens, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yafiction, yareads

As the leaves change and the nights grow longer, it’s time to dive into the eerie and enchanting world of Spooky Season books! This time of year is perfect for […]

Posted about 3 months ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Fiction, For Teens, ghosts, Graphic Novels, holidays; celebrations, horror, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #halloween, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, halloween, halloweenbooks, reading suggestions, spookybooks, spookyseason, teenreads, ya, youngadult

Don’t know what to read next? Looking for YA book recommendations? Welcome to the Book Chat with the Young Adult Team. Every month, the YA Team each recommends a favorite […]

Posted about 4 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions

  RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.   Check out these new booklists on the RPL Readers page! Two recent articles caught my eye, both about the (supposed?) dearth of […]

Posted about 4 months ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Fiction, For Teens, hispanic heritage month, holidays; celebrations, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens | Tagged with #bookrecs, #teens, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, forteens, hispanicheritage, latino, latinx, reading suggestions, teenreads, teens, ya, yabooks, yareads

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually in the United States starting on September 15, which was chosen to coincide with the Independence Days of several Hispanic nations, and ending on […]

Posted about 4 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions, ReadUpRichmond

Richmond Public Library's Read Up Richmond challenges people to read differently, to read outside one's own lived experience to develop an understanding of the world. This program is an opportunity for people from different walks of life to come together in the library to learn together, enter into a conversation with the larger community, and share the same space - making Richmond a more connected, more civil place.

Posted about 5 months ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Book Reviews, For Teens, Teens | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, reading suggestions, teenreads, yabooks, yareads

Don't know what to read next? Looking for YA book recommendations? Welcome to the Book Chat with the Young Adult Team. Each month, the YA Team recommends one book from our YA collection.

Posted about 6 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions

RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE CHECK OUT THESE NEW BOOKLISTS ON  THE RPL READERS PAGE August is Happiness Happens month Because we can’t contain our Happiness, there’s more! Happiness […]

Posted about 6 months ago by Kate McCarthy

Posted in Fiction, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, Greek mythology, mythology, reading suggestions, retellings

So you’ve read Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles or Circe and are hungry for more… Or maybe you’re a fan of the Percy Jackson series or quite possibly you’ve just […]